Wish Upon a Star

Hi there, today I'd like to share a mostly white on white card, using the Precious Marieke Star Circle Die.

This is the die that I used today, the Precious Marieke Star Circle, which can be found over at Dies R Us

I began by die cutting the star circle die from both white cardstock and silver mirror cardstock. 

The negative star spots of the white version were filled in with the stars from the silver version. The little stars were quite fiddly to insert into the spots. They were held in place with little pieces of tape on the back. I used my stamp platform to stamp the sentiment from an old Sparkle N Sprinkle set. The platform allowed me to position the stamp exactly where I wanted it on the white card base in Versafine Clair Morning Mist. This was heat embossed with Silver Detail.

The circle was then attached using little foam pads behind the bigger stars and bits of foam pads behind the little stars. A few self-adhesive clear rhinestones were attached to finish off my card for today.

Below is a list of the products used in my card today:

Nesties Christmas Trees Set 420 (SNS)

Precious Marieke Star Circle Die

Versafine Clair Morning Mist

Silver Detail embossing powder

Clear Self Adhesive Rhinestones

Foam Pads

Silver Mirror Cardstock

I'd like to join in the following challenges:
Scrapy Land Challenge #126: Use a die that Scrapy Land carries
World Wide Open Design Team Challenge #11: Anything Goes
The Holly and the Ivy Challenge #61: Anything Goes
Krafty Chicks Challenge #483: Monochrome

I hope you've enjoyed my share today?

Till next time,

Shona

Brayered Nativity

Hi there,

Today I have a card for Christmas at Sweet Stampin' with the option of trees. I went for a less traditional Christmas tree - palm trees!

The palm trees in this sweet nativity scene waved to me as I thought what I was going to do for my card this month.

I brayered a piece of glossy white cardstock with the Kaleidacolor Creole Spice ink pad. 

I ran the die over both the brayered panel and a navy panel (which had been die cut with the Cross Stitched Frame Border). The positive part of the die was inserted into the negative of the navy panel. Then a piece of yellow cardstock was layered with a piece of Super Adhesive Sheet. 

After removing the protective backing the blue panel was layered over the yellow cardstock. Daisy glitter was then burnished on top of the sticky surface. This added a "glow" to the background.

The nativity scene panel was layered to blue corrugated cardstock and then a gold ribbon was tied around the base before being layered to a blue cardfront.

Here are the products I used on my project today:

Kaleidacolor Creole Spice Ink Pad

Memory Box Cross Stitched Frame Borders

Die-namites Nativity Scene

2 ½” Tear-ific Tape

Daisy Semi Transparent Microfine Glitter

Brayer

Gold Ribbon

Blue Corrugated Cardstock

Well we didn't see much of a Fall here this year. No snow yet, but that's only because
there is no precipitation! I just returned yesterday from a four day stay in Arizona, it was
a bit of a whirlwind tour, but I enjoyed every minute of it! Hard to come back from
86 degrees to 36!! We were staying in a resort in Scottsdale where there was a very well
kept canopy of date palm trees. Maybe this was the inspiration for my card! Also a night
time scene.

Join us for the challenge at Christmas at Sweet Stampin'. We'd love to see what you do
with your tree stamps!

Thanks for stopping by today. Warm hugs from New Jersey!

Shona

Holly Season's Greetings

Hi there, 

Today I have a Christmas card for the Dies R Us team featuring the Elizabeth Crafts Season's Greetings and Memory Box Ornate Holly dies. I added some Glistening Emeralds flocking along with some red and green mirror cardstock.

Here are the two dies that I used in today's card:

Elizabeth Craft Season's Greetings:

Memory Box Ornate Holly:

First, I die cut the Elizabeth Craft Season's Greetings sentiment from red mirror cardstock.

Then I layered a piece of white cardstock with a piece of Super Adhesive Sheet and die cut using the Memory Box Cross Stitched Frame Borders. After removing the protective backing I centered the sentiment on to the sticky panel.

Unfortunately the Glistening Emeralds flocking covered up the cross stitch pattern, but I know it is there!! I also forgot to take a picture of that process! I cut a piece of white cardstock 1/4" larger than the die cut and edged it with red Krylon pen.

I then cut out a couple of the Memory Box Ornate Holly from green mirror cardstock.

After assembling all the layers, the ornate holly sprigs were cut and arranged on top and I used self-adhesive red rhinestones as the holly berries, which adhered the sprigs to the card front.

Here is a list of the products that I used in my project today!

Elizabeth Craft Dies Season’s Greetings

Memory Box Ornate Holly
Super Adhesive Sheet

Glistening Emeralds Flocking
Craft Perfect Red Mirror Cardstock
Craft Perfect Green Mirror Cardstock

Red Self Adhesive Rhinestones

Red Krylon Pen

I'd like to play along in the following challenges:

Scrapy Land Challenge #125: Anything Goes using a die that SL sells
Holly and the Ivy Challenge #59: Anything Christmas Goes
Take It Make It November Challenge: Anything Goes
World Wide Open Design Team #10: Anything Goes Challenge
Classic DT Open Challenge #11 - November: Anything Goes

Hope you've enjoyed my share today,

Till next time,

Shona